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Browsing Master of Fine Arts Thesis by Issue Date

Browsing Master of Fine Arts Thesis by Issue Date

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  • Shoji Hamada, Japanese Potter 
    Weltner, George H. (1967-06)
    Now 73 years old, Hamada is considered by many American potters, particularly those of the so-called "California School," to be out of date. Whether he is out of date or not, he was certainly an important influence on ...
  • Sodium carbonate vapor firing 
    Zamek, Jeff (1974)
    Anyone who has observed a salt firing knows the white cloud which covers the immediate area with sodium chloride and hydrochloric acid. These pollutants directly and quite dramatically affect the refractories and metals ...
  • Wheat from Chaff A Messy Intersection of Desires and Fears 
    Barker, Jamie (2016)
    I am a product of my environment, but the act of making gives me the opportunity to make my environment a product of me: to realize a vision, to manicure a landscape, to plant a garden, and mount my own Arcadian fixtures. ...
  • Deft Perception Action and Recording with the Body 
    Arend, Bailey (2016)
    My works are records of engaging actions, and what I find engaging is the kinesthetic experience of landscape. The experience of vast landscape defines the structure of the work: feeling strength while being dwarfed by ...
  • Habitat, Body, Story: Picturing the shifting nature of home & Decreation: Thorn Collaboration 
    Ethridge, Erin Elizabeth (2016)
    At its core, my work grapples with the nature of things as constantly in a state of flux. I focus a study of home in pursuit of the eye of the storm, but the endeavor reveals all but tranquility. In the process, stories, ...
  • Sensing Time 
    Chavez, Yasmina (2016)
    The casino environment furnishes the experience of timelessness, which is activated through an infinitely looping hand action. Pushing buttons or pulling levers (slot machine), holding, flicking or arranging cards (table ...
  • die Schliche kennen 
    Liang, Aodi (2016)
    In 1991, I was born in Shunde, Guangdong, China. My past 25 years, is not too complicated but also not so simple. I progressed a little bit every day and that is my life. So far, there are three things that are bonding in ...
  • The Aesthetics of Forgetting 
    Torrence, Virginia Rose (2016)
    There are certain symbols, types of touch, and a personal aesthetic that emerge from this process of searching. Some reoccurring symbols within my work are hair, fabric, holes, eyes, impressions, fruit, jewelry, and flesh. ...
  • De.creation 
    Foley, Colleen Marie (2016)
    I choose not to name myself a particular kind of artist. My title is not Video Artist, Performance Artist, Musician, or Writer. I have tried to characterize myself in that way before (as a painter) and it was a mistake. ...
  • Honoring the Ordinary 
    Isaak, Joel (2016)
    My grandma could make amazing cookies and as soon as I was big enough to sit on the counter she let me help her make cookies. She would often stay with my sisters and me while my parents were out of town. In the first grade ...
  • Deft Perception Allusions of Reality 
    Thompsett, Hannah (2016)
    Each of our senses plays a role in understanding space and objects. We learn to anticipate spatial and temporal relationships through the interaction of visual, auditory, and vestibular processes. Representation is an ...
  • Untitled 
    Hamilton, Gustav (2016)
    I make work that reflects its position as an art object as well as my location psychologically, socially, and geographically as an artist. These reflections and references vary. In some cases a work may have a direct ...
  • Wild/Garden 
    Johnson, Lydia Ann (2016)
    Dirt records civilization. We build our homes on it, grow our food from it and bury our dead beneath it. It is our domain, our sustainer, our sanctuary. Engaging with this bodily earth reminds us of our presence. To it, ...
  • My Human Nature 
    Gazsi, Ben Roland (2016)
    As an artist I aspire to explore the true substance of my life. I want a ‘realness’ or authenticity in my work and I want the viewer to feel it. But how do I define art? Why do I make it? Memories like this have helped me ...
  • Penumbra 
    Hershman, Joshua A. (2016)
    The original meaning of penumbra is a space of partial illumination between full shadow and full light. Astronomer Johannes Kepler introduced the term in 1604 to describe the shadows that occur during eclipses. The contrasting ...
  • Untitled 
    Taylor, Austyn (2016)
    The contemporary /civilized way of life exalts a dead materialist universe over an alive one. This sediment has a devastating effect on the collective psyche. 2016: our popular mythology does not regard life as the bottom ...
  • The Place That Is 
    Duke, Emily (2016)
    The studio is a place for working. Working with material, motivated by questions and the rarity of answers. I feel strongly that my sculptures are unconditionally tied to the studio. It is where material is labored over ...
  • A Kind of Souvenir 
    Free, Morgan Rose (2017-05)
    I have always been fixated on how nature and wilderness intersect with contemporary culture. Human beings are of the Earth, we are mammals derived from nature; yet we are so far removed from it. Nature is that wild thing ...
  • Self-healing Function 
    Xu, Yibo (2017-05)
    I have been concerned about the relationship between people and the industrial world. With the development of science and technology, the pace of life was accelerated. Industrial productions dominated almost every area of ...
  • In The End We All Will Be Trees 
    Earle, Jessica J. A. (2017-05)
    The western landscape has sparked the imagination of writers, musicians, and artists since the first Europeans left their footprints in the bush. Explorers, cowboys, and prospectors have left their mark on the land and in ...

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